A Christmas (tree) miracle

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Got a great deal on this puppy at the Home Depot, my local branch at Folsom & Howe/Power Inn. It was tagged as a 6-7′ Doug fir, which tree afficionados will know is the cheaper kind. But as you can see, this one has a kind of sparse quality to it that gives it the air of the more expensiver Noble fir. Plus, as you can kinda tell from the photo, this tree is Yao Ming on a bad day (the star basically touches the ceiling, which is 8’2″, and yes, the extra 2″ makes all the difference). Before the Depot crew trimmed the bottom of this beast (they trim and bag them, free of charge) it was probably closer to 9′ than 7′. But the damage was only $23, and that’s one heck of a tree.

And yes, that blue book up on top of the bookshelf is my blackmail archive. Wouldn’t you like to know if you’re in it?

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Author: CoolDMZ

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  1. Well- the $23 in damage doesn’t include the toxins spewed into the air to get the tree to Floodtown from Washington state, the toxins spewed by Home Depot’s chain saw, the absurdly low “wages” paid to the poor sap who is wasting his/her life cutting your tree and standing in the cold, the groundwater polluted by the fertalizers & hormones pumped into the tree to make it grow faster, the carbon stored in the tree’s biomass which will be released in the form of greenhouse gasses when you “green waste” it (you DO chop it up and let the city take it, rather than throwing it in the garbage or just letting it “fall” off you car in the middle of CCFreeway?) , the extra electricity you are using to light it (not to mention the plastics used to make the string of lights, ornaments, tree stand, “free” wrapping of the tree, etc.), OR the damage to any poor kid’s psyche when they learn the TRUE meaning of Christmass- throw out the old to make way for the new and shiney!

    Bah humbug. Get a live tree & plant it. Decorate with popcorn (the birds will love it!) and cranberries. Teach your kids that christmas is NOT about having the biggest tree, but about family, kindness, helping others, AND AN XBOX 360 played on a 60 inch LCD HDTV.

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